Does the Mommy Track Lead Back to Work?

2/20/2013 9:53AM

WSJ's Leslie Kwoh has details of companies, including the large consulting firm McKinsey & Co., that are recruiting mothers back to the work force who previously left to start families. Photo: Getty Images.

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I'm back from what we understand this is really in Africa for that to get back some of the town a lot sounds really town to email a lot ... and he has won in left to become ... look at some of the numbers to eighty thousand active consultant the twenty fourth ballot and in their alumni network and ... then CEO of actually said that women accounted for only twenty five percent of the firm's intake of hires he wants to change that though we do know David Lees ... said that that this new initiative seems to be going back to some of the talent ... the losses on something that ... is happening ... in and brought still worth a pretty limited to certain Corporation ... something that's not really at the top of mind for a company is right now I'm silly spent with two of the other consulting firms being an ECG and they are also really making an effort to eat at Lonmin ... Bien I think is repeated about one hundred and one in the accident at two thousand and the majority of them are our mothers ... aam and you know this is really just such a hot topic right now I mean they won Merissa Meyer take that ... in the CIA has sent out a lot of people are wondering ... well I ... mean she's pregnant as Monti she really gonna be able to do it in this idea and you know one end as they climb up the ladder ... and needing to take that time on TV to have ... a child or to me ... I will they be able to come back and I think a lot of companies are starting to realize ... it and that's why the drinks are sent and at the top for one and because it's really difficult for them to re enter the workforce ... and filling their morning when in fact are they offering a different job schedules and offering part time versus full time nor are they trying to fit them back into the workforce and as we know and and and so did the same as the reason the firm and tell the left because it was so difficult a couple special so I think for a lot of women is just too difficult to juggle you know that the same hours with the Nikkei and it's a lot of companies are ... scaling back the hours are offering these programs and ... said after maternity leave certain even your back and seeing that it just gets on an ... extended maternity leave and China offer as much supported weekend ... McKinsey has moms support groups that are top defense attorney and it publishes the guy called last ... lullaby of the few that what is left in the ... the Wallabies is the guy he published specifically for Mackenzie and Monson at the guide to how to navigate the company I'm and toppled too ... I'm so in I think um he's really just ... trying to step up and make it easier for moms to come to where Anderson Goldman Sachs is often taken steps to finance the Goldman Sachs has introduced their returns to her them on Henderson actually trademark that name ... and its really reach out to people who have been out of the workforce for a few years ... its short term he interned said ... and I'm you know ... I spoke with a researcher he actually spent some time study met her down and just like the fall ... and most of these returning workers are one and ... before we let you go it is in your ... reporting ... the sense that if there's a shift in corporate America happening here mean this is been in the fountain park in line for women has been going on for many years ... on and it's been very difficult for many women is the Kerry Centene Corporation see the need for the talent is that ... um the other response to ... that they just can't get the people they wanna be him who might not be able to work the full set of what is that really ... and as a printer that you have the chance of managing directors and health just twenty five percent of their new recruits are when and I think for a long time ... the company's focus on ... the Korean won and I hear it that women at the entry level ... but the problem is as you go out ... and hire higher and the latter know these women John Potsdam at the top of the situation ... even more bleak ... I'm and as we know only four or five percent of Fortune five hundred CEOs are winning ... so how can we be appearing at the top baking company is recognized and it's something ... of an interesting stuff to the lives of patients are taken of the BP she two shillings and I think ...